Not quite sure i understand...the drive should be recognised as IDE because that's what the MBoard will report it as...
Have you tried the install yet ? ?
What MBoard are we talking about here ? ?
Very early on in Setup at the bottom of the screen you will see a Prompt "Press F6 to install additional Drivers".....
That's when you put in the media containing the SATA drivers
But this will not help if the MBoard does NOT support SATA.
From a review:
To be honest we were a bit surprised that MSI doesn't have a version of the 648 MAX-F with onboard IDE RAID
. Since most motherboards in the 648 MAX-F's class will have IDE RAID, it does put the board at a slight disadvantage in terms of the "full check list".
You may be out of luck trying it this way...